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Nathanaëlle Herbelin was raised in a small village in Israel, the child of a French father and an Israeli mother. She learned painting in Tel Aviv, alongside Russian and Ukrainian artists who arrived there in the 1990s. Her work as a whole is marked by a contrast between tension and sweetness. Although often melancholic, it does not exclude hints of humour and a certain lightness. Herbelin lives and works in Paris, but ‘Perhaps It Was Never So’ is published on the occasion of her first solo exhibition in Israel. It comprises a collection of intriguing portraits and paintings of interior spaces and objects that together give an intimation of her attraction to the odd and the other. |